It’s the first time a museum has taken a full look at the dozen years before Lichtenstein Popped—when he painted, drew, and made prints in a wide variety of styles.
Brian Howe
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Carrboro’s Trash Tape Records Gives a Gen Z Update to the Ethics and Aesthetics of a Gen X Record Label
“A lot of the modern DIY scene is not based on style as much as genuineness and emotion. People aren’t coalescing around how something sounds but around the fact that the music is very personal to them.”
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Florence Dore’s Parallel Lives in Southern Literature and American Rock Curve Together in New Album ‘Highways & Rocketships’
“People talk about songwriting in mystical terms for a reason. It does sometimes feel like you have to ready yourself to be visited.”
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Triangle First: Durham R&B Artist Elijah Rosario “Can’t Get Enough,” and It’s Mutual
The slick yet sticky slice of bedroom-stadium party music that should appeal equally to fans of Ty Dolla $ign and Daft Punk.
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CALAPSE’s Sophisticated, Emotional Fourth EP Is Its Best Yet
These eight tracks contain a lengthier, weightier emotional journey than 20-some minutes should be able to contain.
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Anne Gomez Gets a Quizzical Portrait in the Short Local Film ‘Niblets’
Defense lawyer by day, skronk-rocker by night, and round-the-clock hater of corn.
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The New York Department of Sanitation’s Resident Artist, a Collaborator with Waste and Water, Shifts from the Hudson to the Haw
“For me, this process is about acknowledging these objects that we’ve created and abandoned, as they become part of the landscape.”
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The Hip Hop South Festival Closes the Gap between the Academy and the Culture
“A low-key foundation of hip-hop is hyper localism: How do we represent where we’re from?” Regina N. Bradley says.
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Quetico’s ‘Know You Are’ Is a Voyage through the Grooviest, Most Sensuous Parts of Throwback FM Radio
The songs are lush but run so clear that their challenging time signatures often hardly even register—they’re more special sauce than the main course, this time.
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The Leitmotif of Drummer Harrison Haynes’s Art and Life in Two or Three Dimensions
From his mild manner and fastidious appearance, you wouldn’t necessarily picture Haynes going to see a chaotic art-punk band, let alone playing in one.
